Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Real Programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More